"Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail."
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happiness Quotes
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
"It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy."
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."
"Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it."
"Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success."
"Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf."
"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
"Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it."
"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."
"It's all about the smiles!"
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you."
"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."
"No one asked you to be happy. Get to work."
"Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have."